Is there any way to send a Foreflight flight plan into this printer setup?
damn -- if I went through the silly PDF that SkyVector provides -- why not!
Lemme research a bit what the export format is!
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#12I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
G1000s are great, but it's disappointing that just about everything else has remained basically unchanged on GA aircraft for the last 30+ years. I hope that we will see some actual innovation in GA engines, airframes, and fuels soon. Fuels might be the most promising for the near-term.
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#13You should look into a roll chart. It’s a small device typically mounted to a handlebar of a motorcycle that contains directions.
As you reach each waypoint, you turn a knob and roll the next waypoint into the window. It should work just great with your receipt printer and your not limited to the length of the A pillar in your plane.
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#14I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
I probably understood 20% of the pilot slang you used here.
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#15This is awesome, but I've been less excited with using my thermal label printer / thermal tape printer lately since realizing those labels are absolutely loaded with BPAs intended to stabilize the thermal ink. :(
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#16You should look into a roll chart. It’s a small device typically mounted to a handlebar of a motorcycle that contains directions. As you reach each waypoint, you turn a knob and roll the next waypoint into the window. It should work just great with your receipt printer and your not limited to the length of the A pillar in your plane.
I was about to buy a plane with a longer a pillar --- darn it! I guess roll chart makes more sense indeed.
I know them from the Rally Dakar, I think up to recently they used them, I think they are super cool; great shout :)
I'd wanna grab a friend w/ a 3D printer to make one because I kind of like the flexibility of sellotape at the moment, especially the roll chart mount into the airframe
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#17I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
It's hard to find NDB approaches at all anymore. Did you do IR in the US? The FAA from what I've read doesn't even encourage an instrument checkride in IMC. That's crazy you did it twice.
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#18I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
I probably understood 20% of the pilot slang you used here.
The G1000 is the Garmin “glass cockpit” system.
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#19I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
I strongly dislike glass cockpits for some reason. Flying VOR using steam gauges is the best :D
Edit: I mean in a simulator. When I'm flying IRL, a GPS is really handy :')
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#20Is there any way to send a Foreflight flight plan into this printer setup?
damn -- if I went through the silly PDF that SkyVector provides -- why not! Lemme research a bit what the export format is!
Not sure about Europe, but I think Foreflight is the most popular EFB in the US for GA pilots. Would be sweet to have support for it!